How students may benefit from a PEOI course?
As shown in Courses, PEOI course offering includes review courses and professional courses. The review courses are present because they cover fundamental concepts that are prerequisites for starting professional courses. There are four review courses and one professional course as of June 2001. The goal is to expand the number of professional courses to 100. In professional courses, PEOI strives to provide professional knowledge that is as complete, up-to-date, accurate, authoritative and useful as possible. It is up to the user to make the most of it. Depending on one's circumstances, one can benefit from a PEOI course for the following purposes.
1)- Personal knowledge:
For instance, in the case of Financial Analysis one can seek to
manage one's own retirement portfolio more efficiently.
2)- Improved work performance:
Course material can be essential for raising the skills and performance
of an employee in a company. Employees can find cutting edge professional
training in PEOI advanced courses. Moreover, employers set criteria
for work related knowledge requirements. PEOI can assist a company
in designing and delivering training material that meets these
criteria. Employees may want to put their employers in contact
with PEOI.
3)- Promotion:
Improved performance certainly helps, but it may not be enough
for promotion. To be promoted an employee must usually show evidence
of greater understanding of corporate core activity. An employee
can show his/her employer proof of such knowledge with completion
of a PEOI professional course because PEOI provides public access
to records of registered and enrolled student course completion
(but not individual grades which can be only viewed by a student
and his/her instructor). How to obtain a record of completion
of PEOI course is covered in the last paragraph. If one seeks
to be recognized for mastery in a field that most any employer
would accept, it is then appropriate to earn either a university
degree or a professional certification discussed below.
4)- Earning credits toward a university degree:
Each PEOI course is designed to cover as thoroughly as possible
the common body of knowledge that is expected for a university
level course in a given area of studies. How this can be accomplished
is discussed in the next topic.
5)- Preparing for a professional certification:
PEOI courses can be used for exam preparing for such professional
credentials as CA, CPA, CFA, etc. The Financial Analysis course
is specifically designed to cover much of what can be asked on
CFA exams.
6)- Seeking PEOI record of registration and course completion:
By registering for a PEOI course, and after successfully completing
a set of course requirements a student is listed in PEOI public
record of course completion which is further described in Records below. PEOI record of course completion
can be viewed in Registered
students records. One must note that, as discussed below,
there is no cost for registration or studying the course material,
but there are costs involved in grading tests, recording grades,
maintaining grade sheets, keeping course completion records, taking
required proctored final exam and in obtaining help from an instructor.